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Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says that if the NFL puts too many games behind streaming services' paywalls, the league could risk losing its antitrust exemptions — The Scoop — If the National Football League puts too many games behind a paywall, it could risk losing its antitrust exemptions, FCC Chair Brendan Carr told Semafor.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Netflix raises US prices following a January 2025 hike; standard with ads rises $1 to $8.99/month; standard with no ads and premium rise $2 to $19.99 and $26.99 — Netflix, for the second time in a little over a year, is raising prices for its three plans in the U.S. The new pricing …
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Andrew Deck / Nieman Lab:
Meta's Oversight Board says Community Notes aren't a proper substitute for fact checking, and warns expanding them beyond the US could pose human rights risks — On Thursday, Meta's Oversight Board, a quasi-independent body that reviews the social media giant's moderation practices …
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Wall Street Journal:
The $6M LA social media verdict is a win for the plaintiffs bar, not kids or society; parenting helps mitigate the harms and most kids don't face severe issues — The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for the plaintiffs bar, not for children or society.
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users
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Emma Roth / The Verge:
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate “core content policies” — Wikipedia editors can only use AI for basic copy editing or translations. … Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI.
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Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
How some independent tech reporters are using AI, which they say allows them to do more reporting and recreate newsroom resources like editors and fact-checkers — Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What's the value of a human journalist, anyway?
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Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X — A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Sony announces Jeopardy! YouTube Edition, a spinoff hosted by Ken Jennings with three YouTube creators playing for the charity of their choice — Ken Jennings will host the new edition, which will feature creators playing for a charity of their choice. — The answer: “This long-running …
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Sophie Shulman / CTech:
Unity confirms plans to shut down its ironSource advertising network on April 30; the two merged in 2022 in a $4.4B all-stock deal — The moves leave little of the Israeli ad-tech firm within Unity, marking a quiet unwind of one of the sector's most high-profile mergers.
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John Koblin / New York Times:
Savannah Guthrie plans to return to the Today show on April 6, after taking a little more than two months' leave to search for her abducted mother — NBC said that she would return as an anchor of the show on April 6, a little more than two months after the disappearance of her mother.
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Anup Kaphle / Rest of World:
Anup Kaphle is stepping down as EIC of Rest of World by the end of April, moving into an advisory role — A note on what the publication built, and why he's leaving confident in what comes next. — When Sophie Schmidt offered me the opportunity to join Rest of World six years ago …
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Newsmax:
Senator Ted Cruz criticized the FCC's process for its Nexstar-Tegna deal approval, saying it sidestepped normal procedure by failing to hold a full FCC vote — Senate Commerce Committee Chair Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sharply criticized the Federal Communications Commission over its approval …
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